Persuasive Essay On Drug Abuse

In life many people struggle with problems, and instead of them addressing the problem their way to get their mind off of it is by abusing drugs that gets them to stop thinking about it. These people often struggle with this on an everyday basis and it is killing our society little by little. Many people are dying everyday due to opioids and everyone as a community should help put a stop to it!

The systematic scheduling of drugs in the United States is arbitrary which leads to a discriminative social injustice. Some psychedelic substances such as Psilocybin are schedule 1 drugs, while alcohol and nicotine are legal. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) both alcohol and nicotine are proven to be harmful and addictive (2017). Conversely, Psychedelic substances have not been proven to be addictive. This equates to a social injustice that discriminates over someone who may prefer the effects of psilocybin to nicotine, even under the science that has shown nicotine and alcohol have a higher potential for abuse. Unfortunately, many political factors come into play regarding the legal status of drugs and industries such as the pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol industries, who harbor the most money and have an influence in the legality of drugs whether they are safe or not. While legalizing psychedelic substances would most likely cut into profits for these large industries they would bring about economic benefits as well.

In recent years the use of drugs has become prominent and it is the cause of the recent deaths in the United States. According to Macionis “[this year]… more than 50,000 people were dying each year from causes related to abuse of such drugs. This annual figure represents just about the same number of deaths to U.S. citizens that resulted from the ten-year Vietnam War”. We are in need of a serious change and with the help of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, we may limit the use of drugs.

Dana Farnick, a 22-year-old young woman had her entire life ahead of her. However, Dana suffered from drug addiction, she went to several rehabs, therapists, treatment facilities, and more (Farinick). Despite all the programs Dana was enrolled in, she still suffered from relapses, and eventually met her death due to an overdose (Farinick). Dana’s parents found her dead on the kitchen floor of their home. This is the result of drug abuse, the untimely death of individuals young and old.

In a home without parents, you’re drug addicted and dropped out of high school freshman year. How could God possibly use you for anything good? For 16 years you give others what they need to stay addicted. But it supports your unhealthy habits. You don’t want to be a drug dealer and all you want is to be clean and a good father but you just can’t do it. You ask yourself how can I stop? The situation I just described sounds like something from a movie or something you see on the news but this was the reality for Mr. Heath Duncan.

A drug is a substance which can be taken by sniffing, injecting or inhaling, this chemicals travel through the body and to the brain which have a physiological effect on the person. Before drugs got criminalised they easy to get your hands on in the 19th century due to the fact people used them as treat sicknesses such as cough, injuries and women used them for menstrual cycles. Drugs such as heroin were could be bought from convenient shops to help cure someone’s cough which apparently sometimes worked but because there wasn’t any knowledge on this substance people often overdosed. Basically throughout my essay am going to try show you how drugs are good and how they could benefit us in the future.

Substance abuse is something that has plagued our nation for a longer than I have been alive. However, these issues are still growing more rapidly than ever. There is easy access to these substances on college campuses and can be readily purchased. This is especially the case with alcohol; it can be bought at liquor stores, bars, supermarkets and even local grocery stores. This means it can be very easy to start overdrinking and become an alcoholic without even knowing it.

Ten to fourteen percent of people that try marijuana become addicted. When people try heroin they think that they will not get hooked, but 85 percent of the user do. Cocaine is a drug that most do not think is addictive, when in all reality it is very addictive. Methamphetamine is a very strong stimulant, and also very addictive. “About 16 million people in the United States abuse drugs.” (Hyde M., & Setaro M.D., 2003, 11). Ones using drugs often lead to difficulty managing money. Many teens are using and abusing drugs thinking that they are safe and not harmful.

Another way to assist students is through an increased use of recovery schools. These schools offer therapeutic programs to assist addicts, and providing a safe educational environment without the temptations of drugs. In the Monitoring the Future Survey, 82% of high schoolers reported that they could easily access marijuana (Katel). The constantly available drug products in schools causes more problems for recovering drug addicts, leading to more relapses. A positive to recovery schools is students who continue to use drugs are expelled from the school, this keeps drugs out of the school, allowing it’s students to be in a safe, temptation free environment (Katel).

Time for them to go back to college. You’ve prepared them well. You’ve discussed peer pressure, and the temptations to engage in alcohol and drug use. You might even have mentioned your own college adventures as a cautionary tale.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP... SLAM! Imagine you wake up to the vexing noise coming from your alarm. Stress fills your body head to toe because there is a big meeting at your work tomorrow that will decide the fate of the company, and you have to pitch ideas about how to save it. The reason you are stressed is not presenting, but simply because you did not write a single word for the meeting. The day of the meeting knocks at the front door, but you don't open. Instead of working yesterday, you goofed around. The boss discharges you later that day, and the women you hold most dear, and your beloved children leave you because you could not provide anything for them without a job. Life spirals out of control so much; thoughts of drugs are suddenly appealing. You test them out, and they seem to manage your stress quite well. All of the sudden drugs are all you can think about. Addiction is a problem, you can't live without them. That is the exact way adventurers feel about their journey; they can't live without finding himself, and that is what a journey is. People go on journeys because they want to feel 3fulfilled. This can be noticed through their massive displeasure, knowledge they seek, and their commitment to prove theirself.

In the twenty-first century, we hear a lot about how smoking cigarettes can kill you, and that the secondhand smoke can involuntarily kill those around you, or how the drinking and driving combination killed people in an accident. Scales, charts, commercials, and yearly stats are all put on display to let people know how dangerous these things are, but what about the illegal drug, weed? There has never been a headline on somebody dying of a marijuana overdose, or studies done to prove all the severely harmful effects of smoking weed. This may simply be because the drug is illegal, but studies have been abundant on drugs like cocaine, heroin, or Ecstasy to find the harmful effects of those drugs. Without the research and evidence to prove weed should be an illegal drug, we must rely on what government agencies have given us. Many cases involved with marijuana are mostly terrible situations that happened because the consumer of the weed had no knowledge of the drug. With such harmful substances already legally sold and consumed daily at the free will of the people, weed should be legalized and added to these substances. Tobacco, barley, and hemp/cannabis are all plants that were completely useless until some person decided to give them recreational uses; tobacco and marijuana were dried up and stuffed into pipes to be burned and inhaled, but barley was fermented and turned into a drinkable substance. All three substances came from the earth and use by humans for recreational

It’s painful to watch someone you love overtaken by the monster of addiction – many of us wonder if there’s anything that we can do to help.

Overdose, seizures, high high rate, and high blood pressure is always a possibility when you sign up for misusing prescription drugs. Many people have heard of prescription medication misuse but don’t really understand a lot about it and don’t know that teenagers are misusing them now. Misusing prescription medication comes with some severe consequences. More and more teens are getting into prescription drug misuse, leading to dangerous side effects and people don’t exactly know why they are getting into it.

A time I caught someone deceiving me would be quite recently when I caught my best friend lying about a substance abuse she has battled for over a year now. I have had many friends whom have dealt with a substance abuse issue during the epidemic our country has battled with, as well as before it begun. With this experience, it isn't difficult for me to pick up when she lies to me about her abuse. She is not a person in authority, the deception has been an encounter with my best friend since it had begun. Deception is defined in Floyd's Interpersonal Communications Textbook as, "According to communication researchers, deception occurs when a speaker transmits information knowingly and intentionally for the purpose of creating a false belief in the receiver," (Floyd, page 384). It is difficult to understand why a user lies about their use, as well as feeling the need to find reasoning behind using to make it seem as if they just mislead the receiver. As stated in Floyd's Interpersonal Communications Textbook, a couple relatable reasons to this situation that a person would deceive is, "Some lies make you look better," or "Some lies help you avoid punishment," (Floyd, page 389). Victims of substance abuse a lot of the time are torn between wanting to get better and refusing to, which can lead them to lie about using to make themselves look better, or to avoid punishment whether it be criticism, verbal punishment, etc. When the sender sends this type of message to the